Changing dentists' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors relating to AIDS: a controlled educational intervention |
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Authors: | B Gerbert B Maguire V Badner D Greenspan J Greenspan D Barnes R Carlton |
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Institution: | Department of Dental Public Health and Hygiene, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0754. |
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Abstract: | The efficacy of an educational intervention designed to improve dentists' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was tested. The intervention had three components: computerized feedback comparing participants' own knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors with those of fellow participants and with an ideal; periodic bulletins; and telephone conference calls with experts. The group receiving the educational package had better scores than a control group on outcomes of willingness to treat persons with AIDS; identification of human immunodeficiency virus lesions; knowledge of AIDS; and completeness of both intraoral and extraoral examinations. It was concluded that intervention is one approach to increasing dentists' positive response to the AIDS epidemic. |
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